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Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

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Post by lolsal »

I think the site is nice - it's clean and directly to the point. No huge hero and no click-throughs to get to the meat of your project. Prices for your posters seem entirely reasonable.

Tangent: I don't understand the fascination with one's own commit heatmap (or any other commit heatmap for that matter). Maybe it seems a bit too self-congratulatory? Vain? I don't know quite what it is, but it rubs me the wrong way and I wouldn't be interested in putting something up like that in my home or office. Maybe because it implies quantity over quality? Whatever the reason, your poster project is nice regardless of whether or not I would buy one.

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

#32

Post by alexpersian »

lolsal wrote: post #31

I think the site is nice - it's clean and directly to the point. No huge hero and no click-throughs to get to the meat of your project. Prices for your posters seem entirely reasonable. Tangent: I don't understand the fascination with one's own commit heatmap (or any other commit heatmap for that matter). Maybe it seems a bit too self-congratulatory? Vain? I don't know quite what it is, but it rubs me the wrong way a…

Purely bragging rights.

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

#33

Post by ortuna »

negative34 wrote: post #30
ortuna wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, great work! Similar to my project https://commits.io Shoot me an email (ortuna AT gmail) if you want to compare notes. I've done a lot of work on how to get those generation times down.

Hi! Love your site. Always wondered, is it making any money?

it's doing well ;) but is equal to the time I put in.

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

#34

Post by aarondf »

aarondf wrote: post #2

Hey yall, looks like it's being hugged to death right now... I'm trying to keep up!

Renders are split out into their own queue now, so those should work pretty quickly. I'm having issues getting all the GH history, so please be patient on that. Sorry!

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

#37

Post by stocktech »

lolsal wrote: post #31

I think the site is nice - it's clean and directly to the point. No huge hero and no click-throughs to get to the meat of your project. Prices for your posters seem entirely reasonable. Tangent: I don't understand the fascination with one's own commit heatmap (or any other commit heatmap for that matter). Maybe it seems a bit too self-congratulatory? Vain? I don't know quite what it is, but it rubs me the wrong way a…

A team commit heatmap would be great for the office tho...

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

#38

Post by aarondf »

stocktech wrote: post #37
lolsal wrote: post #31

I think the site is nice - it's clean and directly to the point. No huge hero and no click-throughs to get to the meat of your project. Prices for your posters seem entirely reasonable. Tangent: I don't understand the fascination with one's own commit heatmap (or any other commit heatmap for that matter). Maybe it seems a bit too self-congratulatory? Vain? I don't know quite what it is, but it rubs me the wrong way a…

A team commit heatmap would be great for the office tho...

That's a great idea

Re: Show HN: Posters of Your GitHub Contributions

#40

Post by carussell »

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #21
rhabarba wrote: post #11

It makes me sad to see that people actively contribute to the implicit "open source = Github" assumption. Open Source has always been successful because there was more than just a single distributor for almost anything. I hope I'll see a new rise of decentralized solutions. For now I'm frightened of the monopolism here.

GitHub is so strongly associated with Open Source right now for a few reasons. First, git is decentralized by default. GitHub has very little secret sauce here; most, if not all, of their cool git tricks are actually pushed upstream into the git client to benefit everybody. For remote management, I can run `git init --bare` in any directory on any ol' ssh box I want and then set it up as a remote and get the same exa…

> GitHub has very little secret sauce here

GitHub's secret sauce was to use dark patterns meant to accelerate the network effect working in their favor.

Specifically:

1. Quietly kill patches as the main currency in open source

2. Redefine "pull request" to mean "the thing that happens when you click a certain button on github.com"

The end result is that collaborating with GitHub-hosted projects is made arbitrarily difficult unless you're also hosting your work on GitHub.

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